I have a person card for myself and my wife and on that person card i have a bar in the middle that is dependant on the waze integration that tracks our devices distance from home.
I’ve noticed that if we are in the car together, the amount of time almost always has a 3 minute difference between us. My question is, why could this be? My thinking is that if we are in the same vehicle and the same amount of distance from home, why is the time different? Is it the update time on the phone that dictates updating this time? The core reason I am seeking to correct this is because i have a ‘leaving the house’ and a ‘welcome home’ automation that chooses different actions if…
I am leaving the house…
my wife is leaving the house
we are both leaving the house
and
If i am coming home
If my wife is coming home
we are both coming home together.
The automation that does these things has been a bit problematic on the choose function because there is a time difference between the time we arrive…even though we are in the same vehicle.
It is hard to tell without knowing what you used to set up waze. In general, home/away works best if you combine both gps trackers and other trackers, such as router/wifi based, bluetooth, etc. The person integration can combine these, there’s also this:
Also check the sensor settings in the HA the companion app regarding location. If they are both ios or both android, compare the two and see if you missed something, such as the location zone setting.
And then if you want quick response I would base automations on the combined device tracker and not on the Waze integration, which does not update instantaneous due to polling rate limits. If it is (closer) proximity you are after, use:
Both proximity and the above composite tracker include a direction of travel, which is also helpful.
For your dashbord you could even get creative and create a template which uses Waze for longer distances and a proximity based estimation when you get close.
“Also check the sensor settings in the HA the companion app regarding location.” I did check the “Location Zone” setting on both the phones and they were both set to 200, i read that increasing this number could increase accuracy, so i set them both to 300…didn’t seem to make a difference, my automation just kicked in when i was further away from the zone, but produced the same unexpected result.
Both phones are android
What exactly do you mean “combined device tracker”? Are you saying put them in a helper? I did try in my automation
This is my latest itterations of welcome home automation
alias: House - Welcome Home
description: "This automation is designed to run whenever coming home. "
trigger:
- platform: device
device_id: b5080f0ddc0022d8c3eb83db1c7ca467
domain: device_tracker
entity_id: a2a5db3ee20688e8bb87203fe453bd00
type: enters
zone: zone.home
id: ME Coming Home
condition: []
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- ME Coming Home
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: zone
entity_id: person.wife
zone: zone.home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_my phone
metadata: {}
data:
message: TTS
data:
ttl: 0
priority: high
media_stream: alarm_stream
tts_text: Welcome Home ME and Wife
- service: script.living_room_kodi_power_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
- service: switch.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: switch.mycomputer
- service: scene.turn_on
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: scene.office
- service: scene.turn_on
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: scene.living_room
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- MY Phone
- condition: zone
entity_id: person.wife
zone: zone.home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_myphone
metadata: {}
data:
message: TTS
data:
ttl: 0
priority: high
media_stream: alarm_stream
tts_text: Welcome Home ME
- service: switch.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: switch.computer
- service: scene.turn_on
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: scene.office
mode: single
This is my latest itteration of house shutdown automation
alias: House - Shutdown
description: >-
This automation is designed to turn off all lights, all warmers, all
televisions, all computers, all light switches when no one is home.
trigger:
- platform: device
device_id: b5080f0ddc0022d8c3eb83db1c7ca467
domain: device_tracker
entity_id: a2a5db3ee20688e8bb87203fe453bd00
type: leaves
zone: zone.home
id: ME Leaving Home
condition: []
action:
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 5
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- ME Leaving Home
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: zone
entity_id: person.wife
zone: zone.home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_myphone
metadata: {}
data:
message: TTS
data:
ttl: 0
priority: high
media_stream: alarm_stream
tts_text: >-
I see that you and Hilary are leaving. I have shutdown the
house for you.
- if:
- condition: device
device_id: 9aad313c10dbfdad67fc5590ec9d88b5
domain: media_player
entity_id: 6c55f2ba4f50740644bc63b3acc26e3b
type: is_playing
- condition: device
device_id: 6e6ac583f0ac6defbd2407b01ea46667
domain: media_player
entity_id: f8cf811f5ae953dfb156f71d71d32fe9
type: is_playing
- condition: device
device_id: ca2945d62812439106ee5edd68169f36
domain: media_player
entity_id: 805096242f9dac61ca80ca8b35803876
type: is_playing
- condition: device
device_id: fc402d33d94e9f06f6696870f73743d5
domain: media_player
entity_id: cab59056fe57c8d3d73fc176ad93cfeb
type: is_playing
then:
- service: kodi.call_method
metadata: {}
data:
method: Player.Stop
target:
entity_id:
- media_player.kodi
- media_player.kodi
- media_player.kodi
- media_player.kodi
- service: kodi.call_method
metadata: {}
data:
method: system.shutdown
target:
entity_id:
- media_player.kodi
- media_player.kodi
- media_player.kodi
- service: media_player.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id:
- media_player.player 1
- media_player.player 2
- media_player.player 3
- media_player.player 4
- service: switch.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id:
- switch.mug_warmer
- switch.kitchen_light_switch
- switch.all_warmers
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- ME Leaving Home
- condition: zone
entity_id: person.wife
zone: zone.home
sequence:
- service: notify.mobile_app_my phone
metadata: {}
data:
message: TTS
data:
ttl: 0
priority: high
media_stream: alarm_stream
tts_text: I have shutdown your office for you.
- service: button.press
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: button.my computer_shutdown
- type: turn_off
device_id: a023783c727e9c10422256c09744ed40
entity_id: 2208f928517345cf59603153c30a79ea
domain: switch
- type: turn_off
device_id: 8ca17555cba59c5f0a5f202aefef8b22
entity_id: f71004cd1798035ad47fba953bed13de
domain: switch
- service: light.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: light.my_office
mode: single
In my person card, the lower left icon is a proximity sensor…I haven’t noticed if those values were different, I was focusing on the waze integration, I’ll have to check if those are different next time we’re out.
Either a person entity in Home Assistant (with multiple device trackers added to one person) or the integration I linked to in my post (Composite) which does the same, better. Check the docs for that to see what it does.
You now use only the phone gps tracker, so that is just one source, no combination.
It is hard to read though, because you use a device trigger. You should avoid those:
Because you only use one single device tracker in the trigger, you do not take full advantage of the person integration. That can use multiple device trackers to determine the location of one person.
What I get from it, is that the automation is not built to detect your wife coming home. It does not use the waze integration at all, so I have no clue why you brought that up. If you did use waze, the polling interval for that would explain a lot.
You can build this way simpler. A first person coming home trigger is simply:
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- zone.home
to: "0"
not_from:
- unknown
- unavailable
These take advantage of the person integration, with the ability to add more trackers to one person, thereby increasing responsiveness and possibly accuracy.
You can also use composite to combine the gps tracker with a wifi based one, and put the composite device tracker in the person settings. As said, refer to the docs of the composite integration for why and how.
Thanks for this, I’ve made some updates to my automations to first avoid the device triggers. I would have to leave the house again to see how it goes.
I brought up the waze integration because there’s a discrepancy in distance reporting, that is an indicator for the mismatched gps coordinates even though they should be the same if we’re together in the same vehicle. Because of the discrepancy, the shown times that we arrive at our home is different and hence causes different automation actions to be taken. No, the waze integration does not use the automation or vice versa.
I installed the composite tracker integration and did a basic setup with both my device and my wifes device but have not yet implemented it in the house automations.
